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Re: overrun with bohemians?

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• Subject: Re: overrun with bohemians?
• From: Miles Sabin <miles@m...>
• Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 16:14:29 +0000
• In-reply-to: <E18JyMU-0003jc-00@b...>
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Uche Ogbuji wrote,
> Miles Sabin:
> > Au contraire ... with programming languages typing should _always_
> > be enforced and _always_ be necessary. If that causes you grief,
> > then you're probably using the wrong language.
>
> I'm having a touch of trouble clearly following this argument.  A
> simple test, if you please: Python doesn't enforce typing.  Do you
> say it's the wrong language?

Yes.

> Or do you mean that one is only using the wrong language if it does
> happen to support data typing, and this fact causes grief?

Yes (if you strike out the "only").

But let's have the programming language flamewar sometime somewhere else 
;-)

As far as markup goes, however, we're quite definitely on the same side.

Cheers,


Miles

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